# Most GUI user friendly Time series Econometrics software for modelling and Forecasting GARCH models [closed]

I think the question is simple enough. I have been using Eviews, but it is unable to do recursive one step ahead forecasting directly and requires me to use coding, which I'm not very good at.

I need to know which is the best software which will allow me to do recursive one step ahead forecasts, whereby coefficients are re-estimated at each step, and these are used for forecasts.

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## closed as primarily opinion-based by Malick, Luigi Ballabio, Quantuple, madilyn, Richard HardyApr 3 '17 at 13:07

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• Unless, there is someone on this community who has experience in coding in Eviews and can help me out? I already have the basic code, I just need minor modifications I think, but obviously my knowledge is limited. – Albe Mar 19 '17 at 19:51
• I'm voting to close because "the best software" .. is too opinion based to me. – Malick Mar 20 '17 at 15:46
• Irrespective of my vote to close, for information I do not know a single software that directly allow you to estimate a models whereby coefficients are re-estimated at each step. You 'll be forced to use coding at some points, it looks like a good reason to learn coding, and to add a further skill to your CV. – Malick Mar 21 '17 at 14:51
• I'd be surprised there is any software that is able to do this. If it exists it's probably the best by lack of competition. – Bob Jansen Mar 21 '17 at 17:51
• Thanks for the answer. I am now using coding. Does anyone in this community have experience in coding in Eviews? If I post my code can I get a bit of assistance with it in terms of minor tweaks? If I can get an answer to this, I choose to accept and close this discussion. – Albe Mar 21 '17 at 19:03

Automated recursive GARCH estimation and forecasting is available in R package rugarch via function ugarchroll (you will find an example in the link, too). See also the package vignette for details and examples.